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Conceptualising illness & disease: reflections on Sharpe & Greco
Conceptualising illness and disease: reflections on Sharpe and Greco (2019), by Carolyn Wilshire , Tony Ward in BMJ …Medical Humanities [Published Online First: 11 December 2019] doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011756 Article abstract: In a recent paper, Sharpe and Greco suggest that … Continue reading
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Tagged Carolyn Wilshire, cause, Monica Greco, Prof Michael Sharpe, psychological causes, Tony Ward
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CFS – an illness without disease?
CFS – an illness without disease? In a recent paper psychologist Prof Michael Sharpe and sociologist Monica Greco discuss CFS as an ‘illness without disease’ in comparison to cancer, a known disease, and argued that, while illness-focused treatments like CBT … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi C Wood, disease, illness-focussed approach to care, Michael N Dyson, Monica Greco, Prof Michael Sharpe, Susanna Agardy
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Why GET and CBT are controversial in CFS
Why Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy are controversial in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Michiel Tack in BMJ Medical Humanities blog Sharpe and Greco ask the interesting question of why cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, GET, graded exercise therapy, Michiel Tack, Prof Michael Sharpe
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Sharpe, Goldsmith & Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings
Response: Sharpe, Goldsmith and Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings, by Carolyn E Wilshire, Tom Kindlon in BMC Psychology 2019 7:19 [Published: 26 March 2019] Abstract: In a recent paper, we argued that the conclusions of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Carolyn E WIlshire, Kimberley Goldsmith, PACE trial, Prof Michael Sharpe, Prof Trudie Chalder, Tom Kindlon
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Responses in BMJ to Prof Sharpe on PACE trial
Pressure grows on Lancet to review “flawed” PACE trial On 22 August Ingrid Torjesen wrote a news item in the British Medical Journal about an article in the Times which highlighted the call to review the results of the PACE trial into … Continue reading
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Tagged BMJ, Dr Ellen CG Grant, Ingrid Torjesen, Jonathan Kerr, NAsim MArie Jafry, PACE trial, Prof Jonathan Edwards, Prof Michael Sharpe
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Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you
PLOS blog post by James Coyne PhD, 7 December 2016: Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you I was asked by a Danish journalist to examine a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of cognitive behavior … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Schroder, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Per Fink, Prof James C Coyne, Prof Michael Sharpe
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Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?
David Tuller continues his analysis of research about treatments for CFS with an examination of the FINE trial. A summary has been compiled by MEAction. Virology blog: Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial”been “Disappeared” and Forgotten? [9 … Continue reading
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Tagged BMJ, British medical Journal, Chalder fatigue scale, FINE trial, Lancet, Medical Research Council, MRC, PACE trial, Prof Alison Wearden, Prof Michael Sharpe, Prof Peter White, Science Media Centre, Tom Kindlon, Trudie Chalder
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Government orders release of PACE trial data
The ME Action blog reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Queen Mary University of London to release anonymized PACE trial data to an unnamed complainant. Queen Mary has 28 days to appeal the decision. The report outlines … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Richard Horton, Information Commissioner’s Office, Lancet Psychiatry, ME Action, Prof Michael Sharpe, Queen Mary Hospital
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PACE trial researchers respond to David Tuller
David Tuller’s three-installment investigation of the PACE trial for CFS, Trial By Error, received much attention in the press. Although the PACE researchers declined David’s efforts to interview them, they subsequently requested the right to reply. Virology blog posted the response of Professors … Continue reading
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Tagged Cort Johnson, David Tuller, PACE trial, Prof Michael Sharpe, Prof Peter White, Trudie Chalder, Virology blog
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